Gypsy Woman coming to Black Hole
The Black Hole Theatre company is set to open their 2011-12 season with a contemporary version of The Gypsy Woman, a play by Don Nigro….
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Disappearing into Thin Air
It was late at night, around this time last year, downtown Winnipeg. Just past eight o’clock, I stepped off the 62 bus and out onto…
Talking through the flower
Armin Wiebe says it was an anecdote about his grandparents that inspired his first play, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz. The former University of…
Cabane fever
Canadian choreographer and dancer Paul-André Fortier’s latest work steps outside the boundaries of dance. Cabane, the latest work by one of Quebec’s best-known dancers, incorporates…
Bringing Strindberg’s dreams to life
Every year, Winnipeg’s Master Playwright Festival honours a playwright whose work has been significant to the craft and inspiring to audiences and fellow playwrights alike….
Living in GOSA’s glass bubble
From the week of Nov. 15-19, 2010, I lived in a tent in the Gallery of Student Art on campus at the University of Manitoba,…
Sugartime flashback joys courtesy of a well tuned stylus
There’s a shit-ton of reasons for students to be stressed out on a daily basis. How the fuck am I going to pay off my…
Living in harmony
Among the opera personalities in town for Manitoba Opera’s production of Puccini’s famous Tosca, are husband and wife Richard Margison and Valerie Kuinka — the…
Another winter of discontent
Well, shit. Winter is back, kicking ass and taking names. Outside, it is wet and cold as fuck. There was snow last night, and the…
Inglorious
One word can sum up my experience of the Prairie Theater Exchange’s (PTE) production of Glorious! It says it right there in my title. Need…